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Maryla

A Hebrew-rooted pet form of Maria. It's rare enough now that most Poles have never met one, and it goes to fewer girls each year.

Maryla Pronunciation

Maryla is pronounced mah-RIH-lah (/maˈrɨla/).

Alive in 2025
3,154
Newborns 2025
7
National rank
#577
Also celebrates
27 June
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What Maryla means

Where Maryla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Maryla begins in Hebrew, as one of the many Polish offshoots of Maria. The name that grew into Maria carried the sense of the beloved, and Maryla holds that meaning still: beloved, ukochana. Around it stands a large family. Marysia and Mania are the softer diminutives, while Mariya and Marianna are variants that a single household might use for the same girl.

Polish literature gave the name a face. Maryla Wereszczakówna was the youthful love of Adam Mickiewicz, and his poems fixed her under that name for readers who never met her. Schoolchildren tend to meet Maryla in verse before they meet one in a class register.

The warmer reading, ukochana przez Boga, beloved by God, was layered onto the Hebrew root later rather than drawn straight from it. A Maryla today might sign the fuller Marianna only at the urząd. Most days she is simply Maryla, the beloved.

When Maryla celebrates name day

Maryla appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 June.

Next name day
27 June
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 245 days
Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Maryla

1 in 7148 women in Poland is named Maryla. 3,154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #577 among female names.

People with the name Maryla 2019 → 2025
3,154 −38 since 2019
2020 3,195 +3
2021 3,194 −1
2022 3,201 +7
2023 3,193 −8
2024 3,170 −23
2025 3,154 −16

Maryla's popularity over time

7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #823 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #577 name among living women, even as it slips to #823 among newborns.

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7 newborns with the name Maryla in 2025
national rank #823 that year

Where parents choose Maryla

Maryla is most popular in Podlaskie, 199% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+173%) and Subcarpathian (+156%). It is least common in Silesian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 63% and 49% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Podlaskie
    +199%
    1 in 9,398 babies
  • Lublin
    +173%
    1 in 10,268 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +156%
    1 in 10,960 babies
Chosen least
  • Silesian
    −63%
    1 in 75,861 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    −49%
    1 in 54,690 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    −29%
    1 in 39,284 babies

Maryla as a middle name

Maryla is a first name for 3,154 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,548, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 216th, between Leonarda (1,564) and Florentyna (1,546).

As a first name
3,154
As a middle name
1,548
first name 67% middle name 33%
Middle-name ranking women

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